Vacaville Fire Station 71 was home to a heartwarming reunion on Thursday night. There, a Dixon man who had a heart attack behind the wheel earlier this year met the first responders who saved his life for the first time.

Michael Colombo, 69, does not remember much from the accident on New Year's Day.

"I remember driving down the street and then waking up 15 days later in the hospital," Colombo said.

Colombo was driving to a friend's house in Vacaville when he had a massive heart attack. He crashed into a boat and then his car rolled into the front yard of a nearby home.

He was completely unresponsive when Vacaville Fire Department firefighter-paramedics arrived on scene.

They knew they had to act fast.

"Because he had no pulse, he wasn't breathing," said Darius Zarrabi, the lead fire

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